The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-12-10

placeS Cne traces ana muses. haunt.
Parnassus was not one-third as lofty as
Mount Everest, but all the more was it
rich in verdure and in the Castalian
fount over which hung the fg-tree and
the vine. Thus society is to find its
symmetry not in the dizzy heights of
the few but in that moderate fortune
which contains the truest happiness for
the innumerable host. This fact makes
far more possible the redemption of hui
manity from its misfortunes; it short
ems the pathway over which the human
race must march.
OF all times our age is the most dis
turbed upon the surface because it is
the first to see the disparity of condi-
tion and to fly to the rescue Of the most
unfortunate. There was more dread
full discord in the former periods, but
there was no ear that could detect it.
The cultivation of the mind has made
audible sigh which the past ages could
not perceive, and has detected the SPAR
kle of tears which once fell in the dark.
Hence the new people run hither and
thither in their benevolence with a
charity like the sunbeams, which try to
get down to every field and garden
through the openings in thousand
clouds.
Much of symmetry will come by the
new measurements men will learn to
make of human condition. Many hearts
are now sore over imagined inequali-
ties. When man shall be justly meas
ured and justly measure himself it will
be found that no important difference
exists between the man of many thou
sands of dollars and the man of only a
few thousands, no essential difference
between the plain home of Lincoln and
the castle Of Gladstone, no disparity be-
tween the rich John Ruskin and the
palmer John G.. Whittier. Thus the
human hearts separated by gold in their
childish days will be reunited by men
tai riches in the worlds coming man
hood. Now the grave is called the
great equalizer, but that is dreary
equality which must come to man only
when dead there is in store for the
race an equality of soul which will touch
the living forehead, the beating heart
The race is not marching toward a one
ness in death, but to harmony in life.
Under all these movements of the
age, these benevolent societies, these
churches, these school-houses, these lit
eratures and arts, there is one great
hand, that of the God in man, attempt
ing to make the temple of humanity
rise in beautiful symmetry. God loves
all his children equally, and no move
ment of man will please him which
leaves any of the children behind. The
institutions Of society, its corporations,
its inventions and discoveries, its prec-
ious metals, which are the medium of
exchange, just like art, literature, and
religion, are for the happiness and wei
fare of the race. The millions of money
which few gather are like the clouds
which float up from the sea. These
clouds burst in the mountains, and re-
turn to make harvests once again in the
plains. Thus the millions gathered by
the few will back toward the multitude
Of the next generation. AS the sun
tries to bless all, as the beauty of the
heavens and the earth tries to roll it's
wave into every ear, so all that is good
is out seeking for every soul, and will
not sit down in perfect peace while
there remains single lamb in the wild
mountains.